Humphrey Bogart
Here's looking at you, kid
Humphrey Bogart is a legend and an icon whose magic has not dissipated with time. The wounded tough guy image Bogart molded over the decades of his career still resonates. There is a truth to this image; audiences sense that the world-weariness, the angst, and the vulnerability, which made him an icon of noir as well, were rooted somehow in reality. Even if the spectator knew nothing about his personal life, they believed and still do believe in his performances in cinema classics like Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, The Big Sleep, In a Lonely Place, and The African Queen.
The Movie Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. Movie Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.
All the icons in the first 20 books of the series were voted for by over 7500 TASCHEN readers in a special online poll!
About the Series:
More bang for your buck! "... a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." The New York Times Book Review
About the author:
James Ursini has co-written and co-edited eleven books with Alain Silver; Ursini and Silver are considered two of the foremost authorities on the subject of film noir. Among Ursini’s most notable works is the successful Film Noir Reader series. He has also contributed articles to various film magazines and has supplied the DVD commentary for numerous classic film noirs. He has a doctorate in motion pictures and has lectured on filmmaking at colleges in the Los Angeles area.
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Humphrey Bogart
Duncan, Paul (ED)
Ursini, James Flexicover 5.5 x 7.7 in., 192 pages, $ 9.99 |
- Reviews (2 items)
„Wenn man eine Reihe Movie ICONS nennt, darf man wirklich Porträts der ersten Garde der Hollywood-Darsteller erwarten und diesem Vorhaben wird die kleinformatige und preisgünstige Reihe des TASCHEN-Verlages wirklich gerecht. Umso erstaunlicher ist es allerdings, dass es bei der Auswahl der für diese Reihe zusammengestellten Fotografien immer wieder gelingt, selten gesehenes Material zu präsentieren, das es möglich macht, neuartige Einblicke in die Lebens- und Arbeitswelten der vorgestellten Künstler zu erhalten. So auch bei diesem Band über Humphrey Bogart: Kaum private Aufnahmen, aber viele selten gesehene Film-Stills und Bilder von den Dreharbeiten formen sich zu einem abgerundeten Gesamtbild.“
ekz-Informationsdienst, Stuttgart, Germany
ekz-Informationsdienst, Stuttgart, Germany
- Clippings (1 items)
Buchbesprechung: "Humphrey Bogart " aus der Reihe "Movie Icon" des Taschen-Verlags
dvd-sucht.de, Germany, June 06, 2007
dvd-sucht.de, Germany, June 06, 2007
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